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17 “You also took your fine jewelry—including my gold and my silver that I had given you. Then you made for yourself male images and had sex with them! 18 You took your embroidered gowns and made clothes to cover them. Then you offered my olive oil and incense to them.

19 “Not only that, you took the food I gave you—my fine flour, olive oil, and honey with which I fed you, and you offered[a] them to those gods[b] in order to appease them.[c] That’s exactly what happened,” says the Lord God.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 16:19 Or set
  2. Ezekiel 16:19 The Heb. lacks to those gods
  3. Ezekiel 16:19 Lit. gods as a pleasing aroma

17 You also took the fine jewelry I gave you, the jewelry made of my gold and silver, and you made for yourself male idols and engaged in prostitution with them.(A) 18 And you took your embroidered clothes to put on them, and you offered my oil and incense(B) before them. 19 Also the food I provided for you—the flour, olive oil and honey I gave you to eat—you offered as fragrant incense before them. That is what happened, declares the Sovereign Lord.(C)

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